A pair of shootings overnight Wednesday brought to two dozen the number of victims in the city in the last two weeks – a figure that elevates the amount of recent gun violence to a possibly unprecedented level.

The tally, compiled by the Journal Star and confirmed by the Peoria Police Department, includes the public suicide of Bernell Alexander last week in South Peoria, but not the slaying of his ex-wife in Creve Coeur just minutes before he took his own life.

The most recent victims included a man who was shot in the shoulder at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 3400 block of Sunburst Lane in the Lexington Hills apartments and a man with a gunshot wound to the neck who was taken by private vehicle to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center at 3:13 a.m. Thursday. The second victim told police he was shot while he was a passenger in a vehicle driving through Harrison Homes.

The second shooting marked the 24th victim of gunfire since June 16, when a pair of afternoon shootings kicked off a 12-hour spree of violence that resulted in one fatality and five other people being wounded, including two children who were sleeping on the floor of their North Valley home.

Just a few days later, six people – all teens between the ages of 16 and 19 – were shot during two incidents less than a couple of hours apart.

Several days with multiple shootings and the city’s 15th and most recent homicide have since transpired, leading Lt. Vince Wieland of the Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division to label the period the worst in terms of local gun violence in decades.

“I haven’t seen two weeks like this in my 23 years,” Wieland said Thursday. “I can’t remember two weeks that have been this packed with such a number of violent acts.”

Compared to last year, however, the number of shootings so far this year does not appear to be abnormally high. Through June 22, the city had recorded 58 shootings, compared to 45 over the same time period last year.

“When we’re looking back to June 22, there isn’t that much of an increase, it’s just how it’s coming – it’s coming in bunches,” Wieland said. “It’s getting everyone’s attention because there’s been so many so quickly.”

Several of the shootings appear to be connected and gang-related, and the police have responded in part by temporarily reassigning an officer to a gang intelligence position that was cut at the beginning of the year to ease a $14.5 million citywide deficit.

Wieland called that position critical for investigations of shootings and a better way for the police to keep tabs on what’s happening on the streets. So far, the gang violence appears to have been generated by people and groups familiar to investigators, though some ground was lost when the gang intelligence position was vacant.

“We did lose some vital information that we were tracking,” Wieland said.

Though the recent spike in gun violence has caught the attention of authorities and onlookers for its unusual frequency, it remains, to a certain extent, part of a pattern that repeats every year.

Elaine Frye, executive director of emergency medical services at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, acknowledges the unusually large cluster of shootings in the last two weeks but also notes that more victims of violence tend to visit the level-one trauma center as temperatures rise.

“There is a seasonality to it – when the weather is nicer, more people are outside and roaming,” she said. “We see it every year. When the weather breaks, we see more stabbings, shootings and violence.”

The recent level of violence, she said, has not affected emergency operations at the hospital

PHOENIX — A man was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for kidnapping a 15-year-old girl, holding her in a dog kennel and forcing her into prostitution for 42 days.

Mathew Gray, one of the girl’s captors, also received lifetime probation.Gray pleaded guilty on Jan. 25 to two counts of sexual assault, two counts of child prostitution, one count of aggravated assault and one count of kidnapping.”This crime by defendant Gray takes brutality and depravity to a horrible new level,” said Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.

September 2005, the El Mirage girl was abducted and initially forced to sleep in a dog kennel.

Later, she was forced to hide inside of a bed frame to avoid detection by police.”A 15-year-old shouldn’t have to go through something like that at all,” the victim told the court on Friday. “I’m emotionally unstable. I don’t trust anybody. I keep to myself. I barely talk to my family.”She was rescued on Nov. 8, 2005 by Phoenix Police who were following up on rumors that Gray was holding a girl against her will.During Friday’s sentencing, the victim addressed the court and explained how it was impossible to escape because she feared for her life and the lives of her family.”There was a 9 millimeter put in my mouth,” she said. “Told me if I left or acted dumb or anything I would be shot and so would my family.”Five other co-defendants will be sentenced in a few months. Jennelle Butler 22, and Ryan Rasmussen, 29 each pleaded guilty to sexual assault, as a dangerous offense, and to three counts of attempted sexual assault.Mark Grayned, 22, and Deairick Newsome, 22, each pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and to three counts of attempted sexual assault.Bianca Vierra, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping and three counts of attempted sexual assault.Butler, Newsome and Vierra will be sentenced on June 9. Grayned and Rasmussen will be sentenced June 20.

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit’s population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition – which has spread to other cities – of “Devil’s Night”. This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit – once the USA’s leading automotive industrial center – into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations – with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit’s population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition – which has spread to other cities – of “Devil’s Night”. This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit – once the USA’s leading automotive industrial center – into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations – with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.

Michigan Central Station used to be the state’s main railway station. Today it is a vast multi-story ruin, with the White inhabitants having long since moved away. It stands as an eerie monument to a previous White city: now an unused wreck, possibly one of the greatest signs of the destruction of this once great city.

Above: Three views of the Taxi Stand located at the west end of the MCS building. In the bottom photograph, bays are visible where cabs would wait for paying fares.

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit’s population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition – which has spread to other cities – of “Devil’s Night”. This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit – once the USA’s leading automotive industrial center – into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations – with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.

Above right: when the “People Mover” was launched in the early 1980s, the smashed windows and buildings of the many abandoned buildings along its route presented an image problem for the non-White city fathers. In a move almost comical in nature, windows eye level to the train were covered and painted. In the case of the Statler Hotel awnings were added to shield the view of the lower windows. Since then, many of the awnings have fallen off.

Above: Two views of the former Grand Army of the Republic building – once the gathering spot for Michigan’s American Civil War veterans’ organization. The building, like so much else in Detroit, is in ruins, its former White users having long since left.

Detroit used to be America’s automotive manufacturing center: this was the city where Henry Ford built his greatest factories and where he revolutionized the production process. When Detroit became a non-White city, virtually all of these White-driven engineering works closed down, as the pictures below sadly show:

Above: The Ford Motor Company Model T building on Piquette Avenue, which oversaw the production of the Model T factory is now a deserted crumbling ruin. The original Model T Ford factory, (three pictures below), is equally deserted and also a ruin.

It was not only Ford that had automotive plants in White Detroit: other companies such as Packard and Studebaker also had factories there when the city was majority White. Today, with the changed demographics and non-White city population, only the ruins of these once-great American industries remain. Below, three views of the shattered shell of the Studebaker Plant on Piquette Ave.

The Packard Motor Car manufacturing complex was established on this Detroit east-side location in 1907. Packard manufactured luxury vehicles here until it went out of business in 1956. This colossal 40 plus acre complex was sold for a paltry $750,000 the following year.

What is most striking about this large expanse of manufacturing buildings is the neglect, dilapidation and vandalism that have been wrought on the complex. In more civilized environs, these facilities might have easily been transformed into a manufacturing and assembly center for any number of industrial enterprises. Instead, it lies barely utilized, in shameful disarray and surrounded by blight.

This decay followed the rapid demographic transformation of Detroit from a prosperous majority-European American city into a crime-ridden and poverty-stricken majority African-American city propped up by government handouts, band-aids and feel good charitable donations from corporations.

Neglect and abuse continue to reduce much of Detroit’s infrastructure to a more advanced state of decay with each passing year. Like a patient with a chronic life-threatening illness, but dressed up in a nice suit, having well-polished shoes and clean fingernails, the development in Detroit’s city center is held up as evidence of progress while the day of the wrecking ball and bulldozer approaches for the blighted neighborhoods and moribund manufacturing complexes which cover large tracts of the city.

In the United States, when it comes to race relations, much is said about white racism, which gives the illusion of Euro-american as a violent and threatening community. Yet this is a deceiving and prejudiced picture. A simple glance at the interracial figures show that European Americans are often targeted for interracial crimes while they seldom practice it.

Based on the victimization survey of the US Bureau of Justice, it is possible to make an fairly accurate estimate of the magnitude of interracial crime by converting into numbers the percentages given on two statistical tables: table 42 -Distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender and table 48: Distribution of multiple-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victims and perceived race of offender. We can also use some figures from the FBI UCR Crime reports.Doing this shows that in 2002 while there was, according to the FBI UCR report, about 1 700 White on Black hate crimes, there were nearly 2 million Black on White crimes. Yet, while the statistics for hate crimes receive extensive media coverage, the statistics for interracial crimes are rarely mentionned. this is what leads to a mistaken and stereotyped vision of Euro-Americans and the way they relate to people of other races.

If one look at interracial crime as a whole, Black on White interracial crime largely outnumber White on Black interracial crime. Oddly, while “white racism”, about 1700 crimes, is often used to justify Black people resentment and agressivity toward Whites, White people are not suppose to feel a thing or the slightest resentment for the ceaseless racial violence of which they are the target.

While the african-american community is presented as a victim group, facts & numbers show that the day of Jiw Crow’s America are long gone, it is now blacks who are the most violent group toward other racial groups in America while European-Americans are the more targetted for interracial violence. Blacks are safer today when they are amongst whites than when they are among their own community. That isn’t true for whites, who are not as safe around Blacks as among their own community. Indeed, the statistics show that while most criminality is intra-racial from the victims point of view, (white on white and Black on Black) from the offender point of view, Black criminality is, for many types of crime, interracial: Black criminal assault more Whites or as many Whites as they assault other Blacks. It would therefore be more accurate to say that today, European Americans are living in Louis Farrakhan’s America.

The Interracial crime pattern might also impact the hate crime statistics. It is likely that this kind of criminality also provides an opportunity for the criminal to act on his racial hostility toward whites. For example, known black gangs, such as the 5 percenters, openly express racial hostility and have beliefs similar to the Nation of Islam. The Geraldine Davidson Murder is another example an example of the link between interracial crime and anti-white crime; it began as simple mugging but there were very strong racist overtone, the criminals had also a history of hate crimes done while commiting burglaries. The Wichita Massacre during which Jonathan & Reginald Carr, two african-american who had previously attacked other european-americans, mugged, raped and finally executed five white victims by making them undress, kneel in a row then executing them, has come to many to symbolize the dramatic nature of black on white interracial crime.

If the number of Black on White interracial crimes was roughly 1.9 millions, this means about 10 millions such crimes are affecting the White population every 5 years, 20 millions in 10 years…. Then it must be taken into account that it is not just the victim who is affected but also her familie and friends. Counting a family of two parents and two children, the figure for victims or people who are affected by the ripples of Black on White Crime could be multiplied by 4; in 10 years, about 80 millions European Americans would somehow be affected by this phenomenon. It would be worth asking if the huge number of crimes done by black criminals doesn’t have “some” impact on race relations in America, yet this topic is rarely mentionned and examined.

(calculated figures for the NCVUS table 42)
Distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender – Year 2002

Offender

victim

Estimated number of victimizations (1)

Crimes of violence–(3)

White

Black

100 111

Black

White

466 205

Black

Black

460 388

Completed violence –(3)

White

Black

16 017

Black

White

162 718

Black

Black

157 559

attempted/threatened violence –(3)

White

Black

84 187

Black

White

303 535

Black

Black

302 643

Rape/Sexual Assault – (3)

White

Black

8 448

Black

White

17 572

Black

Black

51 042

Robbery –(3)

White

Black

7 125

Black

White

61 397

Black

Black

60 021

>> Completed/property taken–(3)

White

Black

7 111

Black

White

49 714

Black

Black

43 679

>> With Injury–(3)

White

Black

/ (2)

Black

White

13 530

Black

Black

20 700

>> Without Injury –(3)

White

Black

7 101

Black

White

36 131

Black

Black

22 989

>> Attempted to take property(4) – (3)

White

Black

/ (2)

Black

White

17 762

Black

Black

16 364

>> With Injury –(3)

White

Black

/ (2)

Black

White

6 036

Black

Black

5 230

>> Without injury–(3)

White

Black

/ (2)

Black

White

5 669

Black

Black

11 144

Assault–(3)

White

Black

84 903

Black

White

387 366

Black

Black

349 372

>> Aggravated –(3)

White

Black

22 128

Black

White

70 082

Black

Black

101 259

>> Simple –(3)

White

Black

62 478

Black

White

316 720

Black

Black

247 864

(1) Estimate based on the NCVUS – table 42 – total number of victimizations per race and % perceived offenders by race(2) The absence of number means the Department of Justice could not find enough victims in its population sample for this type of crime to establish a statistic.

(calculated figures for the NCVUS table 48)Distribution of multiple-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victims and perceived race of offender – Year 2002

Offenders

victims

Estimated number of victimizations (1)

Crimes of violence –(3) / a

White

Black

26 461

Black

White

200 302

Black

Black

103 748

Robbery –(3)

White

Black

/ (2)

Black

White

58 770

Black

Black

28 411

Agressions –(3)

White

Black

35 532

Black

White

241 266

Black

Black

66 101

(1) Estimate based on the NCVUS – tableau 48 – total number of victimizations per race and % perceived offenders by race(2) The absence of number means the Department of Justice could not find enough victims in its population sample for this type of crime to establish a statistic.

In the FBI Ucr reports, for every year, see section II, table 2.8 – The links take you to the FBI Spreadsheets)

Distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims and perceived race of offender For Robberiesfrom 1996 to 2002

Année+/-(3)

Offender

Victim

Estimated number of victimizations (1)

1996 –

White

Black

7 440

Black

White

201 284

Black

Black

123 442

1997 –

White

Black

15 738

Black

White

143 606

Black

Black

92 073

1998 –

White

Black

0 (2)

Black

White

121 640

Black

Black

85 252

1999 –

White

Black

68 186

Black

White

103 407

Black

Black

106 053

2000 –

White

Black

5 604

Black

White

114 355

Black

Black

77 727

2001 –

White

Black

0 (2)

Black

White

114 355

Black

Black

45 210

2002 –

White

Black

7 124

Black

White

61 397

Black

Black

60 021

Total
–

White

Black

104 092

Black

White

855 260

Black

Black

589 778

(1) Estimate based on the NCVUS – tableau 42 – total number of victimizations per race and % perceived offenders by race(2) The absence of number means the Department of Justice could not find enough victims in its population sample for this type of crime to establish a statistic.

Table 42: Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender

Table 48: Percent distribution of multiple-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victims and perceived race of offender

Odd :“John is white. He is married with two children. He wears a blue collar when he leaves his shabby, inner-city house to go to work. Life has been a struggle for John, but now he faces his most difficult challenge. John’s neighborhood is turning black. […]In a 50 percent black neighborhood, there is a 37 chance that John’s family will in some way be violently victimized. As the neighborhood relentlessly turns black, some whites will have to be among the last to leave. If John is unfortunate enough to be one them, he will face the following statistics: When the neighborhood is 90 percent black, John and his family will have a 96 percent chance of being victimized. Soon after that victimization will become a virtual certainty, reaching 99 percent likely when the neighborhood turns 93 percent black.”

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit’s population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition – which has spread to other cities – of “Devil’s Night”. This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit – once the USA’s leading automotive industrial center – into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations – with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.